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Gurwin's Adult Day Health Program provides nursing, rehabilitation, and other health services in a social and exciting atmosphere to adults of all ages. Door-through-door transportation is provided, as well as caregiver respite and support.

Commack, NY — Staff and residents at Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center and Gurwin Jewish ~ Fay J. Lindner Residences assisted living participated in the second annual #WeRemember social media campaign organized by the World Jewish Congress (WJC). The international campaign is a visual homage to the millions of victims of the Holocaust.

Originally designated by the United Nations General Assembly, International Holocaust Remembrance day is held each year on January 27th, marking the liberation of Poland’s notorious concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkena. Considered to be the largest global event ever to commemorate the Holocaust, WJC’s social media campaign encourages people to post to Facebook and Twitter photos of themselves displaying #WeRemember signs, which were then live-streamed on a jumbotron at Auschwitz. The inaugural event, launched in 2017, reached more than 250 million people around the world; this year’s campaign doubled its reach, engaging 500 million people in more than 100 countries, with content translated in 24 languages.

Residents at Gurwin Jewish ~ Fay J. Lindner Residences, some of them Holocaust survivors, participate in World Jewish Congress’ #WeRemember social media campaign.

Residents at Gurwin Jewish~Fay J. Lindner Residences who participated in this year’s social media movement witnessed firsthand the atrocities of the Holocaust. Among them were survivors of
Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz, a hidden child and a Kindertransport refugee. Also participating was U.S. army sergeant and bronze star recipient Marvin Bochner, who helped liberate prisoners from Ohrdruf concentration camp alongside Generals Patton, Eisenhower, Bradley and Montgomery. Haunted by memories of the horrors he’d seen, Marvin chose to display the #WeRemember sign “to raise awareness among younger generations to ensure that humanity never forgets.”

Marvin Bochner, WWII veteran, liberator of Ohrdruf, the first concentration camp freed by the U.S. troops.

Malvina Lichtman, Auschwitz survivor

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About the Gurwin Family of Healthcare Services

Founded in 1988 in Commack, NY as a skilled nursing care facility, Gurwin has expanded to include a full-range of health care options, such as long-term care, short-term rehabilitation, ventilator-dependent care, hospice and palliative care, memory care, on-site dialysis, adult day health programs and two home care programs. The Gurwin family also includes a 201-apartment assisted living community — Gurwin Jewish~ Fay J. Lindner Residences — and a proposed independent living community, Fountaingate Gardens, to be built on the Commack campus. For more information, visit www.gurwin.org.

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“My mother was recently hospitalized again and withstood a difficult hospital stay. Only after she returned home, to the Fay J. Lindner Residences, did she improve. I am very grateful for the care she receives at Gurwin’s assisted living community and don’t know where she could ever get the excellent attention she receives every day.”
-Diane H.

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